FLOOD05056

• County: Jefferson
• Community: Buffalo Creek
• Stream Name: Buffalo Creek
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: The Buffalo Creek Flash Flood of 1996
• Date: 3/1/1997
• Prepared For: CWCB
• Prepared By: Henz Meteorological Services
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Documentation Report

LIST OF FIGURES

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FIGURE 1 Location of the te,wn of Buffalo Creek 2
FIGURE 2 Map of Buffalo Creek Watershe,d 3
FIGURE 3 Surface observatiions for 805PM (02052), Jluly 12, 1996 7
FIGURE 4 SkewT, LogP diawam of 600PM Denver sClunding 8
FIGURE 5 Example of radar and rainfall maps 10
FIGURE 6 Severe storm log of NWS for July 12, 1996 11
FIGURE 7 Track of 5 level 01' grellter echo area for
Buffalo Creek stolrm from 715PM to 900PM 15
FIGURE 8 Storm 3 total rainfall f(om 739PM to 913PIVI, the
Buffalo Creek Flash Flood 16
FIGURE 9 Storm total rainfall in Buffalo Creek basin
on July 12, 1996 17
FIGURE 10 Storm total rainfall for July 12, 1996 storm 19
FIGURE 11 Storm total rainfall for August 7,1996 storm 20
FIGURE 12 Storm total rainfall for August 8,1996 storm 21
FIGURE 13 Storm total rainfall for August 23, 1996 storm 22
FIGURE 14 Storm total rainfall for September 14, 1996 storm 23

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